“Authenticating users” means determining a user really is who he or she says (verifying the identity of a user). This is often done using a shared secret such as a password.

“Authorizing users” means granting or restricting access to a specific user who has identified himself or herself. For example, clients in an administrative role are often granted more access than clients in a role as simple users.

The Control class in the System.Web.UI namespace is the base class for all server controls. It provides the properties, methods, and events shared by all web controls. The WebControl class in the System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace derives from the Control class and adds style properties such as Font, Forecolor, and Backcolor. In addition, it provides skin and theme features.

Microsoft recommends deriving from the Control class if your custom control contains no user interface elements. But if your custom control provides a user interface, you should derive from the WebControl class.

Ajax stands for Asynchronous Javascript And XML. Although strictly speaking Ajax itself is not a technology, it mixes well-known programming techniques in an uncommon way to enable web developers to build Internet applications with much more appealing user interfaces than those to which we have become accustomed.

When using popular desktop applications, we expect the results of our work to be made available immediately, without fuss, and without us having to wait for the whole screen to be redrawn by the program.

While using a spreadsheet such as Excel, for instance, we expect the changes we make in one cell to propagate immediately through the neighboring cells while we continue to type, scroll the page, or use the mouse.

Unfortunately, this sort of interaction has seldom been available to users of web-based applications. Much more common is the experience of entering data into form fields, clicking on a button or link, and then sitting back while the page slowly reloads to exhibit the results of the request.

In addition, we often find that the majority of the reloaded page consists of elements that are identical to those of the previous page and that have therefore been reloaded unnecessarily; background images, logos, and menus are frequent offenders.

Ajax promises us a solution to this problem. By working as an extra layer between the user's browser and the web server, Ajax handles server communications in the background, submitting server requests and processing the returned data.

The results may then be integrated seamlessly into the page being viewed, without that page needing to be refreshed or a new one loaded.

In Ajax applications, such server requests are not necessarily synchronized with user actions such as clicking on buttons or links.

A well-written Ajax application may already have asked of the server, and received, the data required by the userperhaps before the user even knew she wanted it.

This is the meaning of the asynchronous part of the Ajax acronym.

The parts of an Ajax application that happen "under the hood" of the user's browser, such as sending server queries and dealing with the returned data, are written in JavaScript, and XML is an increasingly popular means of coding and transferring formatted information used by Ajax to efficiently transfer data between server and client.

One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soap box, which happened in one of Japan's biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soap box that was empty. Immediately the thorities isolated the problem to the assembly line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soap box went through the assembly line empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem. Post-haste,

Solution A

the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soap boxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent whoopee amount to do so

Solution B

But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays, etc but instead came out with another solution. He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.

Moral of the story:

" Keep It Short & Simple" !! i.e. always look for simple solutions.

Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problem. So, learn to focus on solutions not on problems

Experiment from experts proves that smoking a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes (chances of cancer is higher).

Don't eat fruits immediately

Immediately eating fruits after meals will cause stomach to be bloated with air. Therefore take fruit 1-2 hr after meal or 1hr before meal.

Don't drink tea

Because tea leaves contain a high content of acid. This substance will cause the Protein content in the food we consume to be hardened thus difficult to digest.

Don't loosen your belt

Loosening the belt after a meal will easily cause the intestine to be twisted & blocked.

Don't bathe

Bathing will cause the increase of blood flow to the hands, legs & body thus the amount of blood around the stomach will therefore decrease. This will weaken the digestive system in our stomach.

Don't walk about

People always say that after a meal walk a hundred steps and you will live till 99. In actual fact this is not true. Walking will cause the digestive system to be unable to absorb the nutrition from the food we intake.

Don't sleep immediately

The food we intake will not be able to digest properly. Thus will lead to gastric & infection in our intestine.

Girlfriend : "...And are you sure you love me and no one else ?"Boyfriend : "Dead Sure! I checked the whole list again yesterday".

Teacher : "Which is more important to us, the sun or the moon?"Pupil : "The moon".Teacher : "Why?"Pupil : "The moon gives us light at night when we need it but the sun gives us light only in the day time when we don't need it".Teacher : "What do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?"Pupil : "A teacher".

Waiter : "Would you like your coffee black?"Customer : "What other colors do you have?Teacher : "Sam, you talk a lot !"

Sam : "It's a family tradition".Teacher : "What do you mean?"Sam : "Sir, my grandpa was a street hawker, my father is a teacher".Teacher : "What about your mother?"Sam : "She's a woman".Tom : "How should I convey the news to my father that I've failed?"David: "You just send a telegram: Result declared, past year's performance repeated".Teacher : "Now, children, if I saw a man beating a donkey and stopped him, what virtue would I be showing?"Student : "Brotherly love".Teacher : "Now, Sam, tell me frankly do you say prayers before eating?"Sam : "No sir, I don't have to, my mom is a good cook".Patient : "What are the chances of my recovering doctor?"Doctor : "One hundred percent. Medical records show that nine out of ten people die of the disease you have. Yours is the tenth case I've treated. The others all died".Teacher : "Can anybody give an example of COINCIDENCE?"One Student : "Sir, my Mother and Father got married on the same day and at the same time."Teacher : "George Washington not only chopped down his father's Cherry tree, but also admitted doing it. Now do you know why his father didn't punish him ?"One Student: " Because George still had the axe in is hand."

ADO.NET is an integral part of the .NET Compact Framework, providing access to relational data, XML documents, and application data. ADO.NET supports a variety of development needs. You can create database-client applications and middle-tier business objects used by applications, tools, languages or Internet browsers.

ADO.NET defines DataSet and DataTable objects which are optimized for moving disconnected sets of data across intranets and Internets, including through firewalls. It also includes the traditional Connection and Command objects, as well as an object called a DataReader that resembles a forward-only, read-only ADO recordset. If you create a new application, your application requires some form of data access most of the time.

ADO.NET provides data access services in the Microsoft .NET platform.

DataSet object represents a disconnected cache of data which is made up of DataTables and DataRelations that represent the result of the command.

ADO is a language-neutral object model that is the keystone of Microsoft's Universal Data Access strategy.

Three world famous magicians were in the bar drinking and boasting abouttheir achievements.

The first one said," During my latest show, I made three women from theaudience disappear, it was so convincing that their relatives startedpanicking, no one could find the trick"

The second one said, " Hey, that is nothing, during one of my open airshows I made the Municipality building disappear and the entire town wassearching for it"

The third one sighed and said," Both of you are so local, I went to Parisand made the Eiffel Tower disappear for a full one hour, it was live on theTV, entire France was searching for the building & no one had a clue".

Just then an Indian walked into the bar and the three magicians suddenlyturned quiet, gave each other fugitive glances and started to slip towardsthe door.

A Bartender watching this got curious and asked one of the magicians, "Heywhat happened ? Who is that guy ? "

One of the magicians whispered, "He is the World's greatest magician, hehas done the biggest disappearing trick of all times, we are all mereamateurs compared with what he has done. His name is Ramalinga Raju . Hehas made USD 1.5 billion disappear from his company's balance sheet in frontof everyone's eyes, and the entire world is still looking for it.

You can use this control for a pop-up dialog or tool box, or simply as a secondary window for displaying additional content.

Pop-up windows can be modal (disabling the rest of the page) or nonmodal (allowing the user to interact with the rest of the page while the pop-up is showing).

You have full control over what causes windows to appear, where they appear, and what size they start at. By specifying the icons that appear in the title bar, you can let users minimize, maximize, resize, move, pin, and close RadWindow controls with no coding on your part.

If you don't want to allow users these capabilities, you can remove any or all of the controls from the title bar, or even hide the title bar entirely.

If your Web application uses multiple pop-up Windows, you can organize them using RadWindowManager.

By using RadWindowManager, your application also has access to "rad" versions of the alert, confirm, and prompt pop-ups, so that you can control the appearance of these useful dialogs instead of relying on the built-in browser versions.

Unlike the built-in browser versions, which are limited to displaying simple text, you can even add HTML content to the "rad" pop-ups

JeniuS is an universal file organizer and is the main element in the JeniuS programs suite. It lets you organize your files and find them immediately when you need them.Files can be inserted into user-defined albums (i.e.: a music files collection) or into automatically generated ones. For every album you can specify the artist's name, a short description, an image (i.e.: the CD cover or the movie poster), the year and the gender.

SplitFile's goal is to split big file in smaller segments to be able to store them in floppy disks or CDs.

The main feature if compared to other programs like this, is the ability to support very large files and to being configured to increase performances if used with fast disks.

FEATURES:

- A lot of size preset: not only standard ones (floppy and CD-R) but also uncommon ones (ZIP disk, 800MB CD-R, DVD-R) - You can choose to split the file according to the desiderated size or to the number of parts you need - Several units selectable (from bytes to GB). Only SplitFile let you split GB of data! - You can choose the read/write buffer to improve performances (SplitFile's exlusive feauture) - You can pause the task - Two (2) join methods: through the Graphical User Interface ( GUI ) of this program, or through an executable file that anyone can use, even if they do not have SplitFile. - You can choose to be asked before overwriting a file that already exists - You can directly Split/Join the files in a destination folder different from the source one(to easily find the files) and also on different drives (to speed up the process) - It is freeware

DataVision is an open source reporting tool for almost any database available e.g. Access, Oracle, MySql, Information and more.

The reports generated can be easily customized in a drag-and-drop user interface.

The finished reports can then be either printed directly or exported as pdf, html, xml, latex2e, docbook or csv files.

Advanced features include visual table linker, subreports and the ability to embed DataVision into your own applications.

DataVision is an Open Source reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports. Reports can be designed using a drag-and-drop GUI. They may be run, viewed, and printed from the application or exported as HTML, XML, PDF, Excel, LaTeX2e, DocBook, or tab- or comma-delimited text files. The output files produced by LaTeX2e and DocBook can in turn be used to produce PDF, text, HTML, PostScript, and more.

DataVision is written in Java and runs almost anywhere. It can generate reports from databases or text data files. Any database with an available JDBC driver should work: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Informix, hsqldb, Microsoft Access, Progress, and more. Columns read from text files can be separated by any character.

Report descriptions are stored as XML files. This means you can not only use the DataVision GUI but you may also edit reports using your favorite text editor.

Easy shrink any long URL or link in the page to something you can email or Twitter using the TinyUrl service with a single click in your browser.

This extension brings the http://tinyurl.com functionality closer to your fingertips. It will convert a long URL into a smaller, more managable one which is easier to share through email and instant messanger. When you access the new "tiny" URL in your browser it will autmatically send you to the original one.

Using the TinyUrl Creator

It's very simple to use the TinyUrl Creator.Click Tools > TinyUrl Creator and select either "New..." or "From Current URL"

Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 2003 Server and DOS.Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License.

The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Gutmann's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" and they are selected to effectively remove magnetic remnants from the hard drive.

Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defence and overwriting with pseudorandom data. You can also define your own overwriting methods.

Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Server 2008.

Audiograbber is a beautiful piece of software that grabs digital audio from cd's. It copies the audio digitally-not through the soundcard-which enables you to make perfect copies of the originals.

It can even perform a test to see that the copies really are perfect. Audiograbber can also automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and send them to a variety or external MP3 encoders, such as Fraunhofers L3enc, or even use some MP3/WMA encoders internally for automatic creation of MP3's.

You can even record your vinyl LP's or cassette tapes with Audiograbber and make wav's or MP3's of them. There are a lot more functions in Audiograbber, but to put it simply: Audiograbber has the most features one can wish from such a program!

Exact Audio Copy is a so called audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives. The main differences between EAC and most other audio grabbers are :

-It is free (for non-commercial purposes)-It works with a technology, which reads audio CDs almost perfectly.

If there are any errors that can’t be corrected, it will tell you on which time position the (possible) distortion occurred, so you could easily control it with e.g. the media player.

With other audio grabbers you usually need to listen to every grabbed wave because they only do jitter correction. Scratched CDs read on CD-ROM drives often produce distortions. But listening to every extracted audio track is a waste of time. Exact Audio Copy conquer these problems by making use of several technologies like multi-reading with verify and AccurateRip.

phpBB is open source flat style forum software written in PHP programming language. It supports most major database systems, enabling smooth and problem-free installation.

Once installed, the forum can be set up in minutes and the large customizable features won't take much longer than that to set up. phpBB has a templating system that keeps it separate from HTML code to make customizing easy.

There are different styles in the database to download as well as add-ons such as rank images, avatars and more.

The styles have been put through intensive validation processes in order to minimize installation and ensure quality.

Administrators will like the easy to use, modular design panel that lets them spend a fraction of the usual time on admin tasks. Custom profile fields, ranking, smilies and unlimited levels of sub-forums are just some of the features that phpBB provides to make your forum everything you want it to be.

Forum admins will also appreciate security features such as permanent and temporary bans, word censors, user logging, warnings, blacklisting and post moderation.What is phpBB?

Since its creation in 2000, phpBB™ has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB™ 3.0 “Olympus” has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes.

With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB™ will grow with, and complement your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB™ is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.

KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.

SciTE is a developers editor. Originally made as an example for the Scintilla project - an open source source code editing component, SciTE today is a fully featured text editor for developers using virtually any programming language.

Apart for the standard syntax highlighting and code folding features - SciTE also understands error messages from compilers/interpreters allowing it to quickly pinpoint where in the source file the error occurred.

The functionality of SciTE can be extending using scripting. And it can even be "remote controlled" using scripts on Windows.

The executable can be configured to search for a certain JRE version or use a bundled one, and it's possible to set runtime options, like the initial/max heap size.

The wrapper also provides better user experience through an application icon, a native pre-JRE splash screen, a custom process name, and a Java download page in case the appropriate JRE cannot be found.

Features include CD and DVD ripping with DivX/XviD encoding, DVD copy, ISO burning, Video CD (VCD) creation, Audio CD creation for almost any audio file, CD-TEXT support for audio CDs, support for DVD-RW and DVD+RW and much more. On top of all this K3b has a great user interface which make it simple to use.

-Unlimited number of Accounts- Show number of messages directly on the TrayIcon (rotating by account)-Quickly preview a message-Delete messages from the server without downloading them-Rules that identify a message according to your criteria, then does one of these actions:-Play different notification sound-Delete from the server-Run any EXE file -Mark as Spam

First you have to add feeds to RSSOwl - this can of course be done by manually adding the exact URL of the feed.

However, RSSOwl also provides feed discovery that automatically scans a given website for feeds that you want to add.

This makes adding feed a whole lot simpler. Also if you are looking for feeds concerning a specific topic, the built-in feed search engine will suggest feed for you based on keywords you enter.

The layout of RSSOwl is highly customizable allowing you to adjust it to your needs. This includes everything from major changes such as two or three column layout - to minor changes such as text color, fonts and sizes. Another nice features is that you can export feeds in PDF format, as well as RTF (ideal for further editing) and HTML.

The export adds a common look to you feeds and is great for distribution of articles.

ASP.NET gives you the ability to cache the output of pages or portions of pages in memory to improve performance.

The main reason to cache is to reduce the latency and increase the scalability of an application while reducing the server resources required to deliver its page content.

Latency is a measure of the time it takes for an application to respond to a user request. Scalability is the ability of an application to handle increased numbers of users.

If a page is cached on the server, the rendered HTML stored in memory is served instead of a freshly generated page from the server. Because it takes less time for the client to get the page and display it, your web site will seem more responsive.

If pages are completely static, deciding to cache them is a no-brainer. But the decision gets trickier if pages must vary their content in response to one of the following:

PlanetaMessenger.org is an open source universal Instant Messenger (IM) developed fully in Java. PlanetaMessenger.org has plug-in based support for the different IM networks. Among the supported networks are ICQ, AIM, MSN and Jabber - and it even support multiple profiles for these networks.

DVDStyler is simple DVD authoring. While DVDStyler may not yet offer all of the advanced features of commercial DVD authoring tools - it provides a quick and simple interface for adding DVD menus to your own movies.

Adding movie clips is as easy as drag and drop.

Menu screen are created by first loading a background - and then adding buttons.

Then actions are assigned to the buttons to indicate which movie clips should be played when pressed.

The main DVDStyler features are:

- creation a DVD video with interactive menus - support of AVI, MPEG and other file formats - support of MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, MP2, MP3, AC-3 and other audio and video formats - using MPEG and VOB files without reencoding, see FAQ - allows put files with different audio/video format on one DVD (support of titleset) - user-friendly interface with support of drag & drop - flexible menu creation on the basis of scalable vector graphic - import of image file for background - placing of buttons, text, images and other graphic objects anywhere on the menu screen - changing the font/color and other parameters of buttons and graphic object - scaling of buttons and graphic objects - coping of any menu object or whole menu - dvd scripting

TUGZip is a powerful award-winning freeware archiving utility for Windows® that provides support for a wide range of compressed, encoded and disc-image files, as well as very powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.

Unlike any other terminal emulator Poderosa allows you to work with split windows, so that you can easily run multiple sessions at once.

Another unique feature is that Poderosa can be used as a local shell for cygwin.

All typical terminal protocols are supported: telnet, SSH1/SSH2 and serial ports. Poderosa also provides a plug-in architecture allowing 3rd party developers to easily contribute new features and functionality.

A-PDF Text Extractor is a free utility designed to extract text from Adobe PDF files for use in other applications. The program is a standalone application. No Adobe Acrobat needed. A command line version is available also to allow you called in your program or script.

The program is freeware, which means that you can use it either persionally or commercially for free.

This is a simple application based on Absolute Color Picker ActiveX Control that lets you select and pick colors by means of various color models and convert them into HTML-based hexadecimal representation.

Being a great compact color designer it features a free color picker, color scheme generator, color history builder, color scheme management system, screen color grabber and much more.

Absolute Color Picker is 100% compatible with most graphics packages and is the best compact choice for professional designers, freelancers and home users.

If the Franklin Mint made toasters...Every month, you would receive another lovely hand-crafted piece ofyour authentic hand-crafted Civil War pewter toaster.

If Coca Cola made toasters...They'd be capable of making the original, diet and new improved toastas long as you bought your bread in the inconvenient six-pack.

If Microsoft made toasters...Every time you bought a loaf of bread, you would have to buy a toaster.You wouldn't have to take the toaster, but you'd still have to pay for itanyway. Toaster'95 would weigh 15000 pounds (hence requiring areinforced steel countertop), draw enough electricity to power a smallcity, take up 95% of the space in your kitchen, would claim to be thefirst toaster that lets you control how light or dark you want your toastto be, and would secretly interrogate your other appliances to find outwho made them. Everyone would hate Microsoft toasters, butnonetheless would buy them since most of the good bread only workswith their toasters.

If Apple made toasters...It would do everything the Microsoft toaster does, but 5 years earlier....but only the original bread that came from the manufacturer wouldwork in it....when you needed to buy more.... you needed a differenttoaster.... from somebody else (but wait, new plans at Apple indicatethat you will be able to by that different toaster from them ... but ofcourse it won't use the same bread as the original. And as a matter offact.. won't operate anything like the old one... but they say that'sgood!!!)

If The Rand Corporation made toasters...It would be a large, perfectly smooth and seamless black cube. Everymorning there would be a piece of toast on top of it. Their servicedepartment would have an unlisted phone number, and the blueprintsfor the box would be highly classified government documents. The XFileswould have an episode about it.

If the NSA made toasters...Your toaster would have a secret trap door that only the NSA couldaccess in case they needed to get at your toast for reasons of nationalsecurity.

If Sony made toasters...The ToastMan, which would be barely larger than the single piece ofbread it is meant to toast, can be conveniently attached to your belt.

If Timex made toasters...They would be cheap and small quartz-crystal wrist toasters that take alicking and keep on toasting.

If Fisher Price made toasters..."Baby's First Toaster" would have a hand-crank that you turn to toastthe bread that pops up like a Jack-in-the-box.

If IBM made toasters...They would want one big toaster where people bring bread to besubmitted for overnight toasting. IBM would claim a worldwide marketfor five, maybe six toasters.

If Xerox made toasters...You could toast one-sided or double-sided. Successive slices would getlighter and lighter. The toaster would jam your bread for you.

If Radio Shack made toasters...The staff would sell you a toaster, but not know anything about it. Oryou could buy all the parts to build your own toaster.

If Oracle made toasters...They'd claim their toaster was compatible with all brands and styles ofbread, but when you got it home you'd discover the Bagel Engine wasstill in development, the Croissant Extension was three years away, andthat indeed the whole appliance was just blowing smoke.

If Sun made toasters...The toast would burn often, but you could get a really good cuppa Java.

Cornice was originally developed to provide more or less the same functionality of ACDSee but on Linux. But since it was developed using Python program language - it is now available on virtually any platform - Windows, Mac and of course Linux.

It has a great navigation and a strong thumbnail viewer - and when you find the picture you are looking for you can easily zoom and rotate it.

At the same time exif data can be shown if they are stored with the image - this could include information on when exactly a photo was taken.

Among other features Cornice can also be used for slideshows - and it is even able to navigate into your zip files.

Cornice is a cross-platform image viewer written in Python + wxPython + PIL. It doesn't pretend to be complete, fast, or even useful, but I like it and it is the viewer I use on both Linux and Windows. It has been inspired by the famous Windows-only ACDSee.

Archimedes is a computer aided design (CAD) solution focusing on architectural design. While the current version of Archimedes may not be mature enough for all - this project is very promising.

It already has many of the most common and advance drawing features you will find in a commercial CAD solution. However, it's interoperability with other products is still lacking. On the other hand drawing can be exported in scalable vector graphics (SVG) format - allowing you to share finished drawings with a wide audience without requiring them to install the product.

The Boss & IWhen I take a long time, I am slow.When my boss takes a long time, he is thorough.When I don't do it, I am lazy.When my boss doesn't do it, he is too busy.When I do something without being told, I am trying to be smart.When my boss does the same, he's showing initiative.When I please my boss, I'm kissing up.When my boss pleases his boss, he's co-operating.When I do good, my boss never remembers.When I do wrong, he never forgets.But regardless of all else....The Boss is always the Boss!

The receptionist was instructed to call a vendor. Using the vendor'sinvoice as the source of the phone number she began calling. Each timeshe called, her phone would ring. When she answered, no one wasthere.

This continued throughout the morning. When later asked if she reachedthe vendor she explained what was happening and demonstrated for hersuperior. He noticed that the phone number she was calling (which wason the vendor's invoice) WAS THEIR OWN PHONE NUMBER! She had spent an entire morning calling herself.

DEFINITION: un-der-writ-er n. 1 : One who lacks the personality to be an Actuary.Question: Why do risk managers have such clear vision and foresight?Answer: From the ivory tower, you can see forever.

Ever notice how little aerobic exercise attorney's need? Must be fromchasing all those ambulances.The only way to tell if a broker is lying is to check if his lips are moving.On the other hand, insurance company executives don't lie... they reallyjust don't know what the the truth is!

Old accountants never die; they just lose their balance.Old underwriters, on the other hand, just take less risks.

Blender is well suited for character animation, effects, and content creation for games, movies, and flash or web animations, as well as for still renderings for such areas as illustration, architecture, and product design.

Blender provides a broad spectrum of modeling, texturing, lighting, animation and video post-processing functionality in one package. Through it's open architecture, Blender provides cross-platform interoperability, extensibility, an incredibly small footprint, and a tightly integrated workflow. Blender is one of the most popular Open Source 3D graphics application in the world.

Aimed world-wide at media professionals and artists, Blender can be used to create 3D visualizations, stills as well as broadcast and cinema quality videos, while the incorporation of a real-time 3D engine allows for the creation of 3D interactive content for stand-alone playback.

Originally developed by the company 'Not a Number' (NaN), Blender now is continued as 'Free Software', with the source code available under the GNU GPL license. It now continues development by the Blender Foundation in the Netherlands.

GParted is an open source partition manager also known as the Gnome Partition Editor application. It is actualy a LiveCD/LiveUSB that allows you to boot directly into GParted when you need it - independent of the operating system you run.

The main task of GParted is to allow managing partitions without destroying the content already on them. GParted support the following filesystems: ext2, ext2, fat, fat16, fat32, ntfs, hfs, hfs+, ufs, xfs, reiserfs, reiser4, jfs and linux-swap.

GParted is the Gnome Partition Editor application. Before attempting to use it, here is some basic background information.

A hard disk is usually subdivided into one or more partitions. These partitions are normally not re-sizable (making one smaller and the adjacent one larger). The purpose of GParted is to allow the individual to take a hard disk and change the partition organization therein, while preserving the partition contents.